Re: Push gravity

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:04:56 -0800, fishfry <fishfry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Does anyone know about this? Looks cranky.
>
> "As its title suggests, this book expounds a theory that the force of
> gravity is a push rather than a pull. This is not an idea invented by
> Wright - a Frenchman named George-Louis LeSage is usually credited with
> coming up with the first version of it in 1784. Since then there have
> been several attempts to come up with a push theory of gravity that can
> be made to fit with observation, some of them very sophisticated - such
> as those put forward by the renegade astronomer Tom Van Flandern and
> others. There is even a patent based on a push gravity theory. But
> Wright's scheme as set out in this book is rather harder to take
> seriously."
>
> Lots more ...
>
> http://www.oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/wcwright.html

Haven't read the book, can't comment. If you're really interested in this
topic try,

http://www.mountainman.com.au/news99_b.htm

for a basic overview of the idea and,

http://www.mountainman.com.au/le_sage.htm

For more mathematical details. You could read

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0968368972/002-4489672-7022432?v=glance&n=283155

if you have further interest (over thirty articles by dozens of authors)

Paul Stowe



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